Nonfiction Reading Recommendations
Fermat's Last Theorem and Longitude
Undaunted Courage
A History of God
It’s Not About The Bike
Double Fold or The Size of Thoughts
The Story of Painting
Niagara
Friday Night Lights
Think or How to be Good
Another Planet
Beyond The Narrow Gate
Everything Was Possible
My Autobiography
The House of Morgan or Rockefeller
Wishing on the Moon
Glass, Paper, Beans
Salvation on Sand Mountain
The Death of Satan
Guns, Germs, and Steel
American Childhood or Tinker Creek
Calendar
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Nickel and Dimed
American Sphinx
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Backlash
The Whole Shebang
Six Easy Pieces
Gorillas in the Mist
Next Of Kin
Zipper
Objects of Desire
Beirut to Jerusalem or Lexus and the Olive Tree
Complications
Many Masks
Shot in the Heart
The Culture of Fear
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
A Civil Action
Seabiscuit
The Total Package
How to Read a Poem
Lost in Translation
Emergence
Empires of Light*
Woman Warrior
Balkan Ghosts
No Ordinary Time or Next Season
The Road from Coorain
Brunelleschi's Dome or Michelangelo and…
Clone or Flu
Amir Aczel & Dava Sobel
Stephen Ambrose
Karen Armstrong
Lance Armstrong
Nicholson Baker
Wendy Beckett
Thomas Berton
H.G. Bissinger
Simon Blackburn
Elinor Burkett
Leslie Chang
Ted Chapin
Charlie Chaplin
Ron Chernow
Donald Clarke
Leah Hager Cohen
Dennis Covington
Andrew Delbanco
Jared Diamond
Anne Dillard
David Ewing Duncan
David Eggers
Barbara Ehrenreich
Joseph Ellis
Anne Fadiman
Susan Faludi
Timothy Ferris
Richard Feynman
Dian Fossey
Roger Fouts
Robert Friedel
Thatcher Freund
Thomas Friedman
Atul Gawande
Brendan Gill
Mikal Gilmore
Barry Glasser
Linda Gordon
Jonathan Harr
Laura Hillenbrand
Thomas Hine
Edward Hirsch
Eva Hoffman
Steven Johnson
Jill Jones
Maxine Hong-Kingston
Robert Kaplan
Doris Kearnes Goodwin
Jill Kerr Conway
Ross King
Gina Kolata
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Savage Inequalities
Into the Wild or Into Thin Air or…
Cod
The Arabs or The Africans
American Ground
Evolution's Workshop
The Big Test
The Middle East
Absolutely American
The Accidental Asian
Young Men and Fire
Four Arguments for the Elimination of
Television
Peter the Great or Nicholas and Alexandria
Angela's Ashes or 'Tis
Coming Into the Country
Battle Cry of Freedom or…
City of the Century
Blue Highways
Reading Lolita in Tehran
The Orchid Thief
For God, Country, and Coca-Cola
Engineers of Dreams or The Pencil
In the Heart of the Sea
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Botany of Desire
Amusing Ourselves… or Building… or Technopoly
Making the Corps
Genome
Stiff
The Haunted Land
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes
Skyscraper
The Devil’s Candy
Iron and Silk
When I Was a Puerto Rican
Fast Food Nation
Mies van der Rohe
Galileo’s Daughter
The Guns of August or…
Why We Shop or Call of the Mall
Triangle
Mississippi
The Beak of the Finch
Lincoln’s Greatest Speech
Forever Open, Clear, and Free
Lincoln at Gettysberg or…
The Professor and the Madman or…
Shaping a Nation
The Right Stuff or…
Reverence
Jonathan Kozol
Jon Krakauer
Mark Kurlansky
David Lamb
William Langewiesche
Edward Larson
Nicholas Lemann
Bernard Lewis
David Lipsky
Eric Liu
Norman Maclean
Jerry Mander
Robert K. Massie
Frank McCourt
John McPhee
James McPherson
Donald Miller
William Least Heat Moon
Azar Nafisi
Susan Orlean
Mark Pendergast
Henry Petroski
Nathaniel Philbrook
Robert Pirsig
Michael Pollan
Neil Postman
Thomas Ricks
Matt Ridley
Mary Roach
Tina Rosenberg
Joan Ryan
Karl Sabbagh
Julie Salamon
Mark Salzman
Esmerelda Santiago
Eric Schlosser
Franz Schulze
Dava Sobel
Barbra Tuchman
Paco Underhill
David Von Drehle
John Walton
Jonathan Weiner
Ronald White
Lois Wille
Gary Wills
Simon Winchester
Carter Wiseman
Tom Wolfe
Paul Woodruff
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